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The wide net the Bears have cast in their coaching search brought in another candidate Tuesday. The team announced that Lovie Smith met with Mike DeBord about being the team's tight ends coach. DeBord was the tight ends coach for the Seahawks last season. He served as the assistant offensive line coach for the Seahawks in 2008. The Bears hired Mike Tice as offensive line coach Friday and continue to search for quality position coaches while the hunt for the next coordinator goes on. Previously, DeBord spent 12 seasons in two stints at the University of Michigan, where he was offensive coordinator and worked with the line and tight ends.

Few coaches have demonstrated the ability to work with Randy Moss more successfully than Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Mike Tice. Tice always has had a strong relationship with Moss, who announced this week that he intends to return to the NFL after sitting out last season for what he said were personal reasons. Moss, who turned 35 on Monday, is a free agent and one of his former teammates believes the Bears could be an ideal landing spot for the future Hall of Famer.

After docking their chartered boat at Burnham Park Yacht Club, the Vikings will be able to walk to Soldier Field on Sunday to play the Bears. Q. After a week of controversy preceded by a month of controversy, what is the Vikings' mind-set? A. "We're going to win the game this week," coach Mike Tice said on KFAN radio in Minneapolis. Q. Say what? A. "We're going to win the game this week," Tice repeated. Q. Did he elaborate? A. "We better win this Sunday.

Each week we ask Bag Boy to give us footnotes on the key details from Sunday's game. Here's what came out from behind the brown bag. FACT Brad Johnson passed for 247 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Vikings to a meaningless 34-10 victory over the NFC North champion Bears on Sunday afternoon. FOOTNOTE New Year's resolution No. 1: I will no longer waste three hours watching meaningless NFL games. Please, the hangover was bad enough. FACT Minnesota finished 9-7, one positive for coach Mike Tice during yet another up-and-down season marred by a scandalous boat party.

Randy Moss may play hard when he wants to. But Mike Tice says he'll no longer be able to do whatever he wants and get away with it. Tice, who replaced Dennis Green as the Vikings' coach before the final game of last season, said Friday he would hold all players, including Moss, to the same standards and would punish everybody with the same penalties. Moss drew the ire of fans and teammates last year after admitting he played hard "when he felt like it." - Running back Antowain Smith, who revived the Patriots' running game last season, signed a five-year contract to remain with the team.

Mike Tice is frustrated with the replays on the Metrodome big screen. The Vikings coach said he has tried for years to get the official who runs the replay monitor to show more plays with questionable calls to help him decide whether to challenge. "There are some stadiums in the league that are absolutely wonderful," he said. "One, if there is something that the visitors need to look at, it never comes up. Two, if it's something they need to look at, they put it on the Jumbotron.

Former Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Tice won $100,796.20 by hitting the Pick 6 at Del Mar Race Track in Southern California on Thursday, ESPNChicago.com reported. Tice was the Vikings head coach from 2002 to 2005, and he was the Chicago Bears offensive coordinator last season. "I'm a horse guy. Belmont and Saratoga started, and throughout my football life, I've never been able to play them because I've always been in training camp," said Tice, according to the report. In a Pick 6, bettors are required to select the winning horse in six consecutive races.

Based on the heat Mike Tice has been feeling, you would think he has been the one who has been giving up the sacks, committing false starts, throwing the interceptions, running the wrong routes and plowing into the backs of blockers. The Bears offense has a lot wrong with it. But seeing Tice carries a clipboard rather than a wizard's wand, there hasn't been much the offensive coordinator could do to make it better. The Tribune asked three opposing coaches who have gone against Tice's offense this year and two front office men about Tice's game planning, play calling and use of personnel.

By This page is compiled by Theresa Walla, deputy Perspective editor | August 5, 2001

There was nothing but praise for Minnesota Vikings offensive tackle Korey Stringer after the 27-year-old Ohioan succumbed to heat stroke Wednesday. A coach, Mike Tice, said he only wished Stringer hadn't been such a hard worker. Stringer, a Pro Bowl player also respected for his commitment to charity, died after practicing hard wearing full pads in brutally hot weather. One day earlier, he had been taken off the field to rest. Tice said Stringer seemed embarrassed by the dismissal and was not flattered by a newspaper photograph, published Tuesday, that showed his exhaustion.

Another week, another Vikings distraction. The Vikings are now enduring what has become an annual source of agitation: coach Mike Tice's job security. "The guy's been on the bubble almost every year he's been here," said veteran defensive end Lance Johnstone, in his fifth season with the Vikings. "But he's a survivor." But have Tice's nine lives run out? That's the prevailing question after the Vikings failed to fulfill their preseason expectations of winning the NFC North and going to the Super Bowl.